Jayanth Jambulingam Chandrasekhar (born April 9, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois) is an actor, comedian, writer, and film director with the comedy team Broken Lizard. He is best known for directing the film version of The Dukes of Hazzard, as well as the cult hits Super Troopers, Club Dread, and Beerfest. He also starred as the cab driver in the "Terror Taxi" skit from Jackass: Number Two.
He attended high school at Lake Forest Academy. He graduated from Colgate University, where he was a part of the comedy troupe Charred Goosebeak and a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity.
He is of South Indian Tamil heritage. Along with directors/producers like M. Night Shyamalan & Ashok Amritraj and actors such as Naveen Andrews, Sendhil Ramamurthy, Kal Penn, and Aziz Ansari, Chandrasekhar is one of the few prominent entertainers working in Hollywood with an Indian heritage.
